Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
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Free Music Review: "Catch The Rainbow" but get a remastered copy!
Hit: 5 Stars
As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
Sometimes after a rock and roll fan endures, a horrifying storm there can still be a Rainbow when the last drop falls from the sky.
Ritchie Blackmore's departure from Deep Purple after the 1974 "Stormbringer" record was devastating to millions (To this day I wish it were a dream) but when he resurfaced with the debut Rainbow album "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" he afforded us thirty-seven minutes of a mystical journey that was brilliant from the first note to the last crackle on the LP.
You heard the story of him joining forces with ex-Elf member Ronnie Dio, but what is often left out of the equation was Blackmore's ability to foresee Dio handling the challenging role of singing in a formulated (Mythical) project and not simply straight ahead rock and roll.
The opening track many to this day consider Ritchie's premier post Purple tune "Man On The Silver Mountain." The riff became one of the most recognizable in the last thirty plus years. The energy level is exhausting (I mean for the listener, never mind the band). "Self Portrait" is an oxymoron. It is haunting in its shear beauty. "Draw me away to the night from the day" is a lyric of superlative intellect. "Black Sheep Of The Family "is a fun tune and Dio delivers a different way of expressing a rockers success with the ladies- "You get a little black book and it grows and it grows." Up next, "Catch The Rainbow" is magnificent. The words seem to freeze us in our tracks as we lean on every word. "Snake Charmer" brings back the rock and roll and the band clicks on all cylinders. "The Temple Of The King" is mesmerizing. To fully digest the vocals "One day in the year of the fox" several plays are required. To the critics that enjoyed panning Blackmore since 1968 you can tell them "If You Don't Like Rock & Roll It's Too Late Now." The sound of Blackmore's Stratocaster as the story unfolds during "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" is a blowtorch. It comes out of the speakers with such fury it decapitates all in its path. To end the journey one of the finest rock and roll covers and as an instrumental! Rainbow takes the Yardbirds gem "Still I'm Sad" and Blackmore cuts loose for some of the best four minutes the ears will ever encompass.
The numerous haters of Blackmore have little to no knowledge of his musical history. His solos and riffs aren't about how many notes per second he can achieve but the tasteful craftsmanship the guitar can bring to a song. If they would listen, learn, and read on they would actually appreciate his superlative ability to often blend classical with rock and how deep the colors become.
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
Free Music Review: Amazing debut album!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Well it's not quite as good as Rising which is the best album ever but it's still amazing.
1.Man On The Silver Mountain- 10/10 This track is a classic and is still played at every Dio concert and Ritchie Blackmore still performed it at every Rainbow concert until Rainbow disbanded in 1997 but anyway this may be Ritchie Blackmore's strongest riff ever! and Dio's vocal performance is excellent. Anyway it's a great fantasy song by Dio and Blackmore and still got radio play so it appeals to everyone.
2.Self Portrait- 10/10 Excellent dark song by the band which fits Dio's voice perfectly another classic!
3.Black Sheep Of The Family- 8/10 Good song but not a Rainbow song it's a cover and that's a shame because I would have loved to hear Dio's brilliant lyrics another original song but anyway still a good listen
4.Catch The Rainbow- 10/10 Another classic from this album as Dio shows how well he can sing ballads as well as epics and rockers. Blackmore has a solo full of feeling and this was performed at every Rainbow concert until Dio left the band.
5.Snake Charmer- 10/10 Another song that takes place in the middle ages which is Rainbow's trademark. Anyway this song is very underrated and should have been a classic. Dio has brilliant lyrics and vocals as usual and it's no suprise that Blackmore supplied excellent solos and riffs for this one
6.Temple OF The King- 10/10 Here is the best ballad of all time!!! Ronnie's vocals are perfect for this song and his lyrics are amazing too. Blackmore throws togethor and a great arrangemant and solo aswell to make this maybe the best track on the album.
7.If You Don't Like Rock N Roll- 8/10 Kind of cheesy lyrics but a good track and it sounds more like an Elf track.
8.Sixteenth Century Greensleeves- 10/10 Great song! A real classic as Dio puts togethor another great fantasy song. Blackmore's riffs is brilliant and his solo is full of bends and shredding.
9.Still I'm Sad- 10/10 Well the version with vocals is much than this instrumental version but this version is brilliant too. The live version off On Stage however with Dio's vocals blow it away. I still wonder why there weren't any vocals on this.
The band is
Ronnie James Dio- vocals
Ritchie Blackmore- Guitar
Gary Driscoll- Drums
Mickey Lee Soule- Keyboards, Piano, Mellatron
Craig Guber- Bass
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Free Music Review: 8 classic tunes... 1 stinker
Hit: 5 Stars
The "stinker" is "If You Don't Like Rock 'N' Roll," but the other cuts on the album make up for it... this album still deserves five stars.That aside, this is a classic fantasy metal album (maybe even the first...?) that rocks me to my core. Kicking it off is "Man On The Silver Mountain," which is one of the best songs on the album. It is built off of a signature Ritchie Blackmore guitar riff, and Dio's melody is awesome... it is immediately apparent that this record will be a great rock statement. Dio's melodic, but ferocious roar and dungeons-and-dragons lyrics perfectly match Blackmore's baroque musical stylings. The next song, "Self Portrait," is one of my favorite Rainbow songs. It is a slow, bluesy number with an incredible, soulful guitar solo from Blackmore. "Catch the Rainbow" is the closest this album comes to an epic, at about six-and-a-half minutes. It has obvious influence from Pink Floyd, and this is a good thing! It is a very mellow, psychedelic song. "The Temple of the King" is probably the most mystical song on the album, with really weird but awesome lyrics from Ronnie James Dio.
My favorite song is the instrumental "Still I'm Sad," which is a cover of the Yardbirds. I've never heard the Yardbirds' version, but it can't possibly come close to this, because this version blows me away. It is so dreamy and ethereal, but hard-rocking at the same time. Blackmore's soloing is incredible... maybe even his best on the album.
Blackmore's playing and Dio's singing are consistently awesome throughout the song, and they save songs like "Snake Charmer" and the Quatermass cover "Black Sheep of the Family," which, based on songwriting alone, would fail in the hands of almost any other band. The other 3 musicians (bass, drums, keys) are fine, but certainly not exceptional. Blackmore and Dio are the real stars of the show.
People say this album has a stupid album cover... I completely disagree! I think it is one of the coolest album covers of all time! It tells you a little about what the music will be like... the castle represents the baroque, medieval themes, and the guitar shape represents the awesome hard rock that the music is based on. Rainbow's self-titled album, while not up to the standards of their next two studio efforts "Rising" and "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll," is still one of the best metal releases of the 70's.
Free Music Review: THE ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK BAND
Hit: 5 Stars
even though very few people have heard of rainbow,even those who consider them selfs hard rock/classic rock fans, rainbow is still the greatest classic rock band that ever formed, i'm serious here,well, maybe tied w/ deep purple. what set rainbow from the rest of the bands at the time like black sabbath,judas preist,the scorpions,ufo,ect was that rainbow was very classically influenced and stayed rooted in the led zepplin era classic rock period. how come rainbow never gets any airplay on rock radio? the only song you will hear is "man on the silver mountain" which doesn't even scratch the surface of rainbow and it's greatness,no,instead we get to hear "stairway to heaven" a bazillion times by the most overrated band on earth. i will admit that this album took time to grow on me, but now it's one of my all time favorites,along whith "rainbow rising" and "long live rock&roll". people made fun of me because the name of my favorite band was "rainbow",but i don't care,hell, i'm listening to it right now, "i'm a wheel, i'm a wheel, i can roll, i can feel, and you can't stop me turning!, i'm the sun, i'm the sun, i can move, i can run, and you can't stop me burning! i'm the night, i'm the night, i'm a black in the white!
i'm the man on the silver mountain! i'm the man on the silver mountain!". rainbow is a million times better then led zepplin, led zepplin never wrote a song as good as "stargazer". i listen to this all the time, its a uplifting album for the most part, but it has slow balladish songs like "catch the rainbow" and "temple of the king". dio is the greatest singer of our time, he has a epic roar of a flesetto, he's a modern day bard,
the funny thing is, dio has been in the rock n roll buisness since the days of elvis,another king of rock and roll. he has been recording and in bands before the beatles even existed, you might as well say dio is a living rock&roll god. ritchie blackmore more is the best rock guitarist ever, he has the most complex,melodic playing,he can make the catchiest riff's too. i think he could smoke any one,except iommi, why do people kiss the (...) of jimmy page,eric clapton,stevei ray vaugh, van halen, randy rhoads and other "legends"? ritchie blackmore puts them all to shame. he is the anti social guitar wizard, you gotta love that. highly suggest you look into rainbows music if you love rock and roll.
Free Music Review: Criminally Underrated
Hit: 5 Stars
Nobody really seems to get it re the debut Rainbow album; hence, a lot of reviews tend to find its strengths to be flaws. This is the one where Blackmore basically replaced the guitarist in Elf and took over the songwriting and direction of the band - the more popular lineup, with Cozy and Jimmy Bain, was still a year away. Thus, unlike every other Rainbow album afterwards, RBR is almost a Mexican standoff between Ritchie's gothic guitar pyrotechnics and Elf's chunky, funky Southern rock sound, and while a number of reviewers mystifyingly wish this album would sound more generically 'metal', this peculiar blend of styles is what gives this album its unique and very satisfying flavor. Keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule (who's been Deep Purple's keyboard tech in recent years) essentially blends into the rhythm section of Gruber & Driscoll, but his pallette of funky and soulful sounds (dig that harpsichord work!) add class and color to the songs and help provide Blackmore with maybe his ideal backing band: he is on serious fire throughout this disc, laying down one impeccable, tastefully hellacious solo after another....I can't ever remember him sounding this good on a studio album, before or since. The understated restraint of these musicians is a huge plus, not a minus: when a track works on this record, it works as a song with its own identity as opposed to a faceless back-catalog stuffer (the way so much of the Turner-era material was - "Drinking with the Devil"...eccchhh). I can't picture "Catch the Rainbow" or "Temple of the King" retaining the almost-magical qualities they have, here, had they been recorded with any other musicians than these boys. Even "Still I'm Sad" is something special, from the guitar-and-cowbell intro to the haunting, distant vocal wails on the fadeout - and, once again, Ritchie is right there with a brilliant and dramatic solo. On tour, it would be trundled out and metalled-up with a typically-overpowering Dio vocal, yet this smaller-scaled instrumental version of the tune is the one that gets into your head and stays there.
Hey, if you want the same old same-old, the shelves are full of it, including other Rainbow albums - knock yourself out. But if you want a hard-rock album with a little idiosyncracy, a little uniqueness all its own, grab this one.